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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3873943" data-attributes="member: 22779">Wow, you're bookstores must have been pretty different from mine.&nbsp; Considering there has been more fantasy printed post 1980 than pre, I'm wondering where your books came from.Sure, there was lots of fantasy.&nbsp; Fifteen Conan books (good luck finding straight up Howards before the Oughts).&nbsp; Four or five Leibers.&nbsp; The couple of dozen from the AD&amp;D DMG reading list and that's pretty much done the lot.&nbsp; Most people couldn't even get fantasy published before 1980 unless they filed the serial numbers off and cast it as SF.&nbsp; Put it another way.&nbsp; Do you really think that, other than Tolkien, any fantasy writer before 1980 came anywhere near the readership or publication levels of Heinlein, Asimov, Andre Norton or, heck, any of the SFWA grand masters?&nbsp; Considering the first fantasy novel to hit the NYT Best Seller List was the Similarian (sp), I'm wondering where all this fantasy was hiding.Note, I do mark the dividing line at about 1980.&nbsp; Post 1980, the rules change and change radically.&nbsp; To the point where it's almost the opposite and finding SF is getting trickier and fantasy is king.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 3873943, member: 22779"] Wow, you're bookstores must have been pretty different from mine. Considering there has been more fantasy printed post 1980 than pre, I'm wondering where your books came from. Sure, there was lots of fantasy. Fifteen Conan books (good luck finding straight up Howards before the Oughts). Four or five Leibers. The couple of dozen from the AD&D DMG reading list and that's pretty much done the lot. Most people couldn't even get fantasy published before 1980 unless they filed the serial numbers off and cast it as SF. Put it another way. Do you really think that, other than Tolkien, any fantasy writer before 1980 came anywhere near the readership or publication levels of Heinlein, Asimov, Andre Norton or, heck, any of the SFWA grand masters? Considering the first fantasy novel to hit the NYT Best Seller List was the Similarian (sp), I'm wondering where all this fantasy was hiding. Note, I do mark the dividing line at about 1980. Post 1980, the rules change and change radically. To the point where it's almost the opposite and finding SF is getting trickier and fantasy is king. [/QUOTE]

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